James Tate Prize 2021 Finalists

We are delighted to announce the finalists for the 4th James Tate International Poetry Prize, aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of Surrealist poetry. We have received 35 poetry manuscripts from eight countries, namely Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Wales, Cyprus, Philippines, and the USA. The quality of most manuscripts was remarkable, and it wasn’t easy to come up with the list of finalists. Still, we have selected 22 manuscripts that we liked best. Here’s the list of finalists (in alphabetical order):

Charles Borkhuis. Spontaneous Combustion
Partridge Boswell. Wild Card
Graham Clifford. Attack
Matt Dennison. Night Whales
Mara Lee Grayson. Unstable as a Bookcase after Midnight
David Greenslade. Zamalek Island
Becki Hawkes. The Naming of Wings
Elise Houcek. So Neon Was the Rope
Heikki Huotari. Chameleon on Paisley
Kurt Luchs. The Sound of One Hand Slapping
Daniel McGinn. Drowning the Boy
Michelle Moloney King. Another Name for Mother
Kenneth Pobo. Doom With Laundry
Dan Raphael. Can’t Explain
Stuart Ross. Cringe System
Julie Sampson. flashes, sparks, a series of dots and dashes
Matthew Schmidt. A Bone-Flower’s Upward Growth
Carol Shillibeer. The Goat Brothers
Ronald Terry. Forgotten Mythologies
Philip Venzke. Chant to Save the World
Edytta Wojnar. i have the right to walk on my eyelashes
Mark Young. ABBAdABBA

We congratulate the finalists, and would like to thank everybody who has sent us their work.

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